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Thai Families Wait in Anxious Hope for Gaza Hostage Release

Thai Families Wait in Anxious Hope for Gaza Hostage Release

In the impoverished villages of Isaan, as Thailand’s northeast is known, families have become used to a vigil from half a world away. On Thursday, five families hoped that their loved ones were finally being released from Gaza, after 15 months as hostages in a conflict whose contours they do not fully understand. The Thai […]

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Shell and Equinor Oil and Gas Production Is Blocked at Sites Off British Coast

Shell and Equinor Oil and Gas Production Is Blocked at Sites Off British Coast

A court in Scotland blocked the production of oil and gas on Thursday at two large project sites being developed in British waters until their impact on climate change can be assessed. The decision was a blow for the sites’ developers, Shell and the Norwegian company Equinor, which have already spent or committed hundreds of […]

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The Southport Killer Was Fixated on Extreme Violence. But Was it Terrorism?

The Southport Killer Was Fixated on Extreme Violence. But Was it Terrorism?

On Oct. 4, 2019, a 13-year-old British boy called a child welfare hotline from his home in Banks, a village in northwest England, and asked: “What should I do if I want to kill somebody?” The teenager, Axel Rudakubana, said that he had started taking a knife to school because he was being bullied. After […]

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Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship Is ‘Fine.’

Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship Is ‘Fine.’

Three weeks after a very public rift, the populist British politician Nigel Farage said on Wednesday that his relationship with Elon Musk was “fine” and that the two men had spoken just last week. Mr. Farage, in a brief interview with The New York Times, said that Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, remained open […]

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DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Awkwardly Navigates China’s Censors

DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Awkwardly Navigates China’s Censors

As the world scrambles to understand DeepSeek — its sophistication, its implications for the global A.I. arms race — one natural question has arisen: Given that it is made by a Chinese company, how is it dealing with Chinese censorship? I decided to test it out. I’m based in China, and I registered for DeepSeek’s […]

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